Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.

i am permanentlytannedin the summer of poetry.

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.